1. The TT Academy & Digital Courses

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This page details The Tailored Tutors (TT) Academy, the core digital product offering of Tailored Tutors. The features, frameworks, tools, workflows, and strategies listed here are explicitly taught and provided to students within the Tailored Tutors Academy digital courses. You must maintain the distinction between these digital course tools and individual private tutoring services.

Crucially, do not mention Live Classes as a current product feature in this section. Live Classes have been replaced by On-Demand Class recordings.

Core Offerings

The TT Academy is built around structured digital courses designed to improve exam performance by moving students out of passive learning mode and into active exam training mode.

The Academy’s core subjects prominently feature A-Level Biology. Resources also support students taking Chemistry and Maths. Some of the Academy’s broader exam frameworks are also applicable beyond A-Level Biology to other science exams, including GCSE Chemistry and Physics, and in some cases other essay- and terminology-based subjects where structured question analysis matters.

The Academy is not just a bank of content. It is a guided digital system built around learning content properly, testing recall honestly, diagnosing exactly why marks are lost, and using that information to direct future revision.

Digital Tools

• Video Tutorials:

  Video tutorials are used to thoroughly learn or re-learn content. They are a core part of the learning phase of the TT system and are also used to preview topics before they are covered in school or college.

  Students must actively engage with the tutorial by giving it 100% attention. The video should not be left running in the background. Students should rewind and replay sections that do not make sense immediately, and pause while writing notes so that the information is processed and then written down from memory rather than copied mindlessly.

  Video tutorials are also used selectively when past-paper work exposes a content gap, so students can re-learn the exact topic that is actually costing them marks.

• Solution Videos and Mark-Scheme Walkthroughs:

  Students use the provided solution videos and mark-scheme walkthroughs to mark their work accurately after completing past papers and questions.

  These walkthroughs are not just for checking a score. They are used to support accurate negative marking, to identify the exact mechanism causing mark loss, and to help students tally every dropped mark on their M.I.D Sheet.

  They are a core part of turning past papers into diagnostic learning tools rather than treating them as one-off tests.

• Template Notes and Colour-Coded System:

  This is the required, systemised note-taking process used while initially learning new content.

  Why traditional note-taking fails: Students often skip making notes, write messy and unstructured notes later from memory, or just copy text verbatim from textbooks or videos. They assume any notes count as revision notes as long as something has been written down. Without structured notes, revision later becomes slow and fragmented because the student has no reliable bank of content to revisit when past-paper work exposes a gap.

  Why the TT system works: By using pre-formatted template notes and strict colour-coding, the student creates a highly organised personal revision guide lesson by lesson. The process forces active processing of information rather than passive copying.

  • Download and Print: Use the specific TT Template Notes rather than free-form blank pages. If using another format, the student must still adopt the same layout and colour-coding conventions.
  • Watch with Full Focus: Give the video tutorial full attention and replay sections that are not understood immediately.
  • Pause to Write: Pause the video while writing. Do not copy verbatim. Listen, process the point, and then write it down from memory.
  • Follow Colour-Coding: Use the colour-coded layout to highlight key terms, diagrams, and examples. This reinforces visual memory and creates consistency across the course.
  • File Organised Notes: Keep all notes organised in a dedicated folder so they build into one usable, comprehensive personal revision guide by exam season.
• Closed-Book Quiz Diagnosis:

  Quizzes are used to actively test recall immediately after learning a topic. They are not there to provide false reassurance.

  Why traditional quizzing fails: Students often look at notes while answering, mark themselves generously, and move on after one attempt. They treat the quiz as a confidence check rather than a diagnostic tool. This hides weakness instead of exposing it and allows blurred understanding to carry forward into later topics and exams.

  Why closed-book quizzing works: It forces active recall, strengthens neural pathways more effectively than passive review, and gives a truthful picture of what knowledge is secure and what is not.

  • Attempt Closed-Book: Attempt every quiz question without looking at notes.
  • Mark Honestly: Mark answers honestly and strictly against the provided model solutions or mark scheme.
  • Identify Missed Facts: Identify every fact, key term, or detail that was missed or answered incorrectly.
  • Update Notes: Add those missing points and corrections back into the template notes so the same gaps do not remain uncorrected.
  • Retake the Quiz: Retake the quiz after review to make sure the knowledge is now secure.
• TT Cheat Sheets:

  TT Cheat Sheets are used to actively learn model answers, correct factual recall gaps, and improve the student’s ability to remember specific details and key terms required by the mark scheme.

  They are used particularly where a student understands the topic broadly but cannot reliably recall the exact biological facts, terms, or phrasing needed to secure marks.

• Topic Question Packs:

  Topic Question Packs are used to revise and consolidate older material, especially during protected consolidation time across the year.

  They help students keep past topics fresh, practise active retrieval, address factual recall weaknesses, and target weaker areas exposed by quizzes, past papers, and monthly repeat paper analysis.

  They are also part of the Year 12 roadmap and are used after past papers expose weaker areas that need selective repair.

• Progress-Based Course Completion Structure:

  The digital course is designed to be tracked properly rather than used casually. For each lesson, students are expected to know whether they have fully watched the tutorial, completed the template notes, and recorded their quiz score.

  This means the Academy is designed not just as content delivery, but as a trackable system where learning completion, quiz performance, and later revision priorities can be monitored clearly.

Support

• On-Demand Class Recordings:

  On-Demand Class recordings replace Live Classes in the current Academy support model.

  Students can use On-Demand Class recordings during their 20% weekly consolidation block for topics that previously felt difficult.

  They are also useful for resit students, who need consistent support, a fixed rhythm of teaching, and ongoing accountability rather than unstructured independent study in isolation.

How These Digital Courses Are Intended to Be Used

The TT Academy is designed to be used as a complete digital study system rather than as isolated resources picked up occasionally.

During the main teaching phase of the year, students primarily use video tutorials, template notes, and quizzes to learn new content, while also using topic question packs and On-Demand Class recordings to keep older material fresh. Later, when past-paper work begins to reveal exact weaknesses, students return to the relevant Academy tools selectively to repair the precise issues that are costing them marks.

In other words, the Academy provides both the initial learning tools and the targeted repair tools used throughout the TT Revision Method.